GoKawiilUCSF study finds diet timing at disease onset shapes long-term skin inflammation in mice
Researchers at UCSF tested how switching mice between high-fat and low-fat diets at different points around an imiquimod-induced skin inflammation challenge affected disease outcomes. They found that the diet composition specifically during the onset of inflammation—not before or after—had a lasting effect on how tissue responded to subsequent inflammatory episodes, a phenomenon they describe as inflammatory memory.